[Zope3-dev] Re: Script (Python), was Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Zope 3 Newsletter: Issue 10

[Jim Fulton]

Jeffrey P Shell wrote:
> On Sunday, September 7, 2003, at 06:22  AM, Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
>> Jim Fulton wrote:
>> ...
>>
>>> The question is whether the site scripter should use module-like things
>>> or things like the Zope 2 script python. Personally, I'd like to see
>>> something more like modules.
>>
>>
>> There is a third alternative.  There could be Python things that were 
>> truly
>> scripts. One of the things I don;t like about "script python" is that 
>> they
>> are a bit like scripts and a bit like menthods. It always bothered me 
>> that
>> they don't act like anything familiar in Python.
> 
> 
> What is familiar with Python?
> 
> A Python file can be a module, executable script, or both.

Right. A "script python" is neither.  It is a method that
pretends not to be.  It uses a "return" statement, unlike
a script or module.  It has no "def" statement, unlike a method.
You can't define any names, unlike a module. There are multiple
"extra" bound arguments, unlike a method. Of course, you can't
actually see these, so maybe they don't count. ;)  Oh yeah,
and there an extra column of spaces added for you (to work with
the def statement that's added for you), to mess up your triply-
quoted strings.

Jim

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